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From D.Regis@exeter.ac.uk  Mon Dec  2 13:33:20 1996
Subject: Re: Guioco Piano notes
To: lorda@boat.bt.com (Andrew Lord)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:33:18 +0000 (GMT)


Hi Andrew


> I've just got addicted to chess 

Sympathy: there is no cure...


> I'm stuck on a problem with a Guiuco Piano line. I got as far 
> as:
> 
> 1. e4 e5
> 2. Nf3 Nc6
> 3. Bc4 Bc5
> 4. c3 Nf6
> 5. d4 exd4
> 6. cxd4 Bb4+
> 7. Nc3 Nxe4
> 8. 0-0 BxN
> 9. d5
> 

Contents

• Introduction
• Principles
• See also: Contempt for Pawns

Introduction

The Senior American Master Ken Smith, who died last month (February 1999), was an advocate of gambits. He was a noted practitioner of the Morra Gambit against the Sicilian , viz.: 1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 ), which some American players still refer to as the Smith-Morra Gambit.

A1.2 The Semi-Slav

Why not a whole one? The ordinary line Slav goes

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4

and Black has tried the quiet 5...Na6, the active 5...Bg4 and the main line 5...Bf5. This last is a well known and popular line and is worth a look.

Attacking Indian systems without c2-c4

• Korchnoi-Karpov, Hastings 1974-5.

• A. Colle System

• Landau - Book, Kemeri, 1937

• B. London System

• Pribyl - Penrose (Nice) 1974

• C. Torre Attack/Torre System vs. King Fianchetto

• Smyslov,V - Nunn,J [A48] (Tilburg), 1982